Meat-cutter



(No Model.)

A. METZ.

' MEAT CUTTER.

Patented Jul 17, 1883.

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UNITED STATES.

(PATENT OFF-ICE.

ADAM METZ, or BURLINGTON,VIOWA.

M EAT-CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 281,545, dated July 17, 1883..

Application filed November 21, 1882. (No modeL) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADAM Mnrz, of Burlington, in the county of Des Moines and State of Iowa, have invented a new and Improved Meat-Cutter, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

, This invention is an improvement upon my meat-cutter shown and described in Letters Patent No. 260,595, which were granted to me July 4, 1882, and has for its object to devise means whereby knives of greater length may be used and to this end my present invention consists in I'setting the rocking lever-arms, from which the knives are suspended, in an outwardly and downwardly inclined direction from their shaft, to shorten the rods that connect these inclined lever-arms to the knives, as hereinafter fully described.

Reference is to be had to theaccompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional elevation of my new and improved meat-cutter. Fig. 2

is a detailed front elevation of the shaft G and the lever attached thereto; and Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the shaft K, with its levers.

. A shaft, A, provided with the crank B and fly-wheel O, is journaled in two standards, D,

and is also provided with devices for rotating it by hand or by machinery. v

To the crank B is pivoted the rod E, the opposite end of which is pivoted to an arm, F,

attached rigidly to-the shaft G, journaled in the side standards, H 'H.

To the lower end of the arm F, which is-secured rigidly to the shaft G, is pivoted the connecting-rod I, pivoted to the upper end of the transverse arm J, secured to one end. of the shaft K, journaled in the standards D, to

- the lower end of which arm J is pivoted. the connecting-rod L, havingits other end pivoted to the middle of the series of segmental rocking knives M.

To the opposite end of the shaft K is secured 5- the arm J, which is connected also with the series of knives M by the pivoted connecting- A rod L, as shown'in Fig. 1. Two connectingrods, N N, are pivoted to the series of knives M and the upper ends of the rocking levers O O on the shaft G. These rocking levers O 0, instead of being placed at right angles to the vertically-positioned lever-arms F F, which is substantially the arrangement of my former patent, are here shown as arranged to project from the shaft G-in -an outwardly and downwardly inclined direction, as in Fig. 1. The series of knives M are adapted to rest on the block'l, which .is provided with .the rim P. This block rests upon the friction-rollers c a, journaled in the base-piece A, and is provided with the surrounding rack B, by means of which, in connection with the vertical shaft 0, pinions D D, attached thereto on opposite ends, and the worm E on the shaft A, the block is slowly revolved when the machine is in operation.

The operation of this machine is generally the same as in my original patent referred to. By placing the levers 0 0 in the inclined posi- 70 tion shown shorter connecting-rods N N are required than when set at right angles to the bars F F, and it is thus practical to use knives of greater length, which greatly increases the efficiency and effectiveness of the machine 75 with the same expenditure of motive power.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters 

